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Various areas related to design of fixture are already been very well described by various renowned authors, but there is a need to couple and apply all these research works to an industrial application. The present volume of this research work integrates all these aspects and the evolutionary functional approach is proved from the fact that real industrial component is considered for fixture designing. The component is case of motor body widely used in automobile industry, made up of aluminum ADC12. The major operations to be performed are drilling and grooving. The research includes design and manufacturing of a fixture, which provides location and clamping arrangement for machining 5 operations on various faces of component in one setup on VMC EZ5 of pallet size 600 mm x 400 mm. Application of hydraulic systems till now was limited to machine tools, material handling devices, transport and other mobile equipment, in aviation systems, etc. but very few applications and research work is carried out on hydraulic fixture. This paper includes the unique aspect of designing and manufacturing 5-cylinder hydraulic fixture for machining case on VMC. While designing this research, a good number of literature and titles written on the subject by renowned authors are referred. The important details of the part and fixture are included in each fixture design section along with component drawing, fixture drawing, 3D view of component & fixture using AutoCAD 2017. Fixture is not only designed but manufactured also, it sets the classical example of design for manufacturing.